Francis Pym

Francis Pym (13 February 1922-7 March 2008) was British Foreign Secretary from 6 April 1982 to 11 June 1983, succeeding Peter Carington and preceding Geoffrey Howe.

Biography
Francis Pym was born in Abergavenny, Wales in 1922, and he served in the British Army during World War II before working as a managing director, landowner, and politician. In 1961, he was elected to Parliament as the Conservative Party MP for South East Cambridgeshire, and he served under Edward Heath as Government Chief Whip (1970-3) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1973-4) and under Margaret Thatcher as Defense Secretary (1979-81), Leader of the House of Commons and President of the Council (1981-2), and Foreign Secretary (1982-3). He opposed Thatcherism, and he stood down at the 1987 elections, becoming a life peer in the House of Lords. He died in 2008.